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I remember seeing a photo of her in an issue of Flex in a brief article on the 1983 Gold's Classic. She won the middleweight division and nearly beat the heavyweight winner, Pillow, in the overall posedown.

Reply from Alison Brundage:1. Thoughts a/o memories from my bodybuilding years. I trained in a backyard gym made out of found objects. I was a night nurse in a small hospital on the North Shore of Hawaii. When I had won several contests there, I got a lot of support from the cops. Policemen would tell me where busted stop-sign posts were. Lots of the gym contruction was made out of these posts...

2. When I went to the Gold's Classic in Venice Beach I really had my eyes opened when I saw so many bodyboilders there in their off-season condition and most likely taking steroids. I felt like I didn't belong...nor did I feel like I had a career going forward. That was pretty much my swan song...those last years.

3. I t was exciting being on the cutting edge of the popularity of muscularity for women. To be quite honest I was naturally muscular and an avid surfer. What I achieved was more due to diet than anything. I had a heck of a great trainner...Steve Dussia.

4. I was not a person of interest when it came to the muscle mags. It was only WSP that supported me in their mag and printed articles. They were great encouragers and I am thankful to them to this day.

5. Diet: To get in contest shape I used the old tried and true 3&1. Three cans of tuna a day.....period . Tuna for 3 days then one day of carbs. That not only dehydrates you but is a real fat burner. I would not recommend it. Nutrition for bodybuilders has come a long way since then. My last National I never weighed in. I competed in the middleweight division. BUT I had lost so much weight, i actually qualified for the lightweights.

6. Last I want to say thank you for all your interest and as well your kind comments

I'm sort of getting a handle on how to submit a photo here.. I just clicked on ImageBam up there where Luca78 had posted those first shots...and used that. I am about to submit some pics I have but I don't want to waste my time goofing it up. So far all I am able to do is copy a link via a subscription I have now with ImageBam.Jot me a personal message if you can give me a photo-duplication for idiots lesson. How do you get the actual image to appear here?...or is that something the moderator does. Thanx

Some answers Moveeguy1. Initially my husband and I were gym members. Very quickly I moved to my own backyard gym in the backyard of our friend and trainer. I never again returned to a formal gym. All the equipment was made by my husband and my trainer...pullies, strange contraptions to effect tension where I needed it. I did have a complete Olympic set and power frame with a full set of dumb bells. My trainer Steve Dussia was old school and well respected in Hawaii as a trainer. He was known to have won BB contests doing nothing but Chas Atlas dynamic tension. It was quite an adventure actually.

2. The diet pre-dated what we know now in BB nutrition. I was consuming 1 gm protein for every kg bodyweight. I have no doubt I lost a considerable amount of muscle... My kidneys survived it. My energy level was actually pretty high. I was working nights, surfing big Hawaiian surf every day... and training as well...running uphill for cardio. My husband sez I was a tad edgey...LOL.

3. My trainer competed with me in doubles at the National Amateur level.

I never kept up with who might have come up after Lori and I. No doubt Lori would know. We were for sure the first who made names. Keep in mind we were way early (as you know). My first BB contest in Hawaii we all came out in high heels ...LOL Lori was one heck of a lifter. She was a competative lifter before her entry into bodybulding. .....................Flash forward many decades. Here's a pic of myself here in the mountains of Central America where my husband and I are doing missionary work with Ngobe Bugle indians.